When Life Takes Over

My 10 excuses for not blogging these last three weeks:

1.) Wedding dress shopping with the BFF and her cronies left me scarred. I don't know if it was all the southern women in one car or driving the wrong way on a one way street in the middle of downtown Seattle (and playing chicken with an F-150 which led to me dropping the F-bomb in front of the BFF's two moms) or suffering the misconception of gweilos when it comes to good Chinese food.

2.) Spending some time in Texas and Louisiana and getting spoiled with 70 degree weather in December. I didn't care that everyone coasted at 90 mph, that I was in a teensy Hyundai or that I drove the seven plus hours from Dallas to Baton Rouge. I had the sun roof open and the sun was on my face. When I got back home, the realization that winter isn't even half over sent me straight into the existential blues.

3.) The fab sushi at Tsunami makes up for being dog-tired and the lack of a good dance station in the Baton Rouge area. The Japanese Magnolias (plum wine + sake) come a close second. Ofcourse there's the hot cajun boys, but I can't very well set my single gal friends up with guys 2000 miles away.

4.) Getting off the plane in time for my Nexus interview. Hooray for not sitting in line at the border!

5.) Staying in town for two nights to relive Christmas in the 80s at the Stevenson Christmas Sweater party. Gold fishnets, red leg warmers, stilettos, a christmas sweater with twin nutcrackers and the piece de resistance - a christmas cross-stitched apron.

6.) Turning back around and flying out the next day for a conference in Baltimore. I was with the Veep's ex-admin and our resident actuary, aka the fourth floor heartthrob. The next three days were unremarkable, uneventful and tiring. The USA Today Crossword came in very handy at the conference. Ofcourse we didn't realize until the last day that the conference was being recorded on video and there was a camera nestled on the ceiling above us.

7.) Flight delays due to bad weather in Denver on the way home. Thank goodness for episodes of Family Guy, Dexter and Nip/Tuck. Note to self: don't watch Nip/Tuck when seated in between two silver-haired men, it's not worth getting hit with liquid projectile when they react to an interracial swingers party scene.

8.) My car needed some attention.

9.) Celebrating the first two days of my use-it-or-lose-it time off by catching up on chores. Six loads of laundry is not normal for one person but the bathroom redo turned out great results though.

10.) Finally doing my Christmas shopping, wrapping, card-writing, reading and mailing. I think I made my Chrismas housewife persona proud.